The evening world., 1887-12-23
WoRLDLINCS.

Joel Arnold, Of Colchester, Conn. 4, recently
trapped q white weasel, the like OF which, old
hunters say, was never seen in Connecticut.
A single sheet Of paper six feet wide and more
than seven miles long was made without q break
In u paper mill at Watertown, N. Y, q short time
ago.
Typhoid fever recently developed at the Norris
town Insane Asylum, and although some Of the
patients died from 1t, It cured others who had SUI
fered for some time from insanity.
When q Meriden, Miss. woman opened the
pantry door the other day an opossum jumped out.
She retained enough presence OF mind to stun the
animal with q and her husband killed II.
In johnson County, Neb., Mr.. James Schlimser,
who stands seven feet In his stockings and is quite
slender, has been Joined In wedlock to the Widow
Walden, who Is short and dumpy and weighs $40
pounds.
A small boy, with O rusty musket, has shot four
handsome eagles near Westerly, Conn.,. during the
past two weeks. The largest of them was an i'm
mense bald eagle that Ii now on exhibition at
Norwich.
Bone Walden and his little boy, Of Martinsville,
Ind. were viciously attacked by q large bald-eagle
while they were returning from q fishing trip re-
Gently. Mr.. Walden drove the eagle away with q
| club, but not before 1t had torn his clothing
badly.
Mrs. ODell, Of Paw Paw, Mioh., built q rousing
fire In the range the other day and closed the oven
door without noticing that the cat was taking q
nap therein. She then turned her attention TO
other duties, and when next she opened the oven
door she discovered the cat baked to a crisp.
The lawyers OF Monroe County. Mich, were 30
pleased with the vigorous way In which Judge
Joslyn, of the Circuit Court, cleared his docket
that they decided to present him with a gold
headed cane. The Judge refused to receive the
gift. saying that a man ought not to have a reward
for doing his duty, and advised them to sell the
cane and give the proceeds to the poor.
A boy who was out rabbit hunting near Eldora,
In Marion County, w. Va. recently discovered
under a ledge Of rocks an extensive cave which
contained the skeletons OF i've or six human be-
ings. 1t is supposed that the remains are those OF
an ancient tribe Of Indians, but some people be-
lieye that the cave was once a robbers den, and
that the bones are the bones Of their victims.
Prof. Max Mailer, the distinguished philoloRist
and philosopher, possesses four OF the old ale cups
which were the delight OF the Angio-Saxon
warriors heart ana which gave the name to our
modern "tumDlers. They are little round bowls
OF ancient silver, about the size OF an orange, and
are SO d~elicately poised that when placed face
downward they at once umbleb back into position.
They are Of immense value.
A merchant of Greenville, Mich, had occasion
TO write to a customer who evidently has few cor.
respondents, and used his regular business en-.
velope, having the usual ''Return In ten days
to -, Greenyille, Mich - printed on 1t. In
about ten days the letter came back to him, &C
companied by q scraWing note In which the writer
said that he had returned the letter according "a
the request on the envelope, though he ''didnr
see why he was 30 ALFRED particular about having
| II sent bAck.n